// convert #hex notation to rgb array
var parseColor = function (hexStr) {
return hexStr.length === 4 ? hexStr.substr(1).split('').map(function (s) { return 0x11 * parseInt(s, 16); }) : [hexStr.substr(1, 2), hexStr.substr(3, 2), hexStr.substr(5, 2)].map(function (s) { return parseInt(s, 16); })
};
// zero-pad 1 digit to 2
var pad = function (s) {
return (s.length === 1) ? '0' + s : s;
};
var gradientColors = function (start, end, steps, gamma) {
var i, j, ms, me, output = [], so = [];
gamma = gamma || 1;
var normalize = function (channel) {
return Math.pow(channel / 255, gamma);
};
start = parseColor(start).map(normalize);
end = parseColor(end).map(normalize);
for (i = 0; i < steps; i++) {
ms = i / (steps - 1);
me = 1 - ms;
for (j = 0; j < 3; j++) {
so[j] = pad(Math.round(Math.pow(start[j] * me + end[j] * ms, 1 / gamma) * 255).toString(16));
}
output.push('#' + so.join(''));
}
return output;
};
// try if it works
console.log(gradientColors('#00ff00', '#ff0000', 100));
// 泥萌的新需求
console.log(gradientColors('#000', '#fff', 100, 2.2));